ELIGIBILITY:

The Fund is open to applications from for-profit small and growing enterprises (commercially viable start-ups, small and medium enterprises, and social enterprises with up to 250 employees).

Be a small and growing enterprise.

Deliver humanitarian solutions to low-income and vulnerable populations in countries that are eligible to receive official development assistance

Leverage digital technology, especially mobile, to deliver solutions described in sections 1 and 2

Be an existing entity registered and operating in the country of project implementation (whether domestic or foreign-owned or a joint venture). In cases where responsibility for service delivery lies with a downstream partner (see section 4 for more details), rather than the applicant, for example, service delivery by a local organisation, it may be acceptable for the applicant to be registered in a country other than that of project implementation (see geographic specific restrictions in section 5).

Be fully compliant with relevant business licensing, taxation, employee, and other regulations in all applicable countries of grant project operation.

Be registered and have a bank account in the country where they will receive the grant money (if not the same as the project implementation country). This account must be capable of receiving GBP payments as all disbursements will be in GBP.

 Commit to providing 25% to 50% match funding depending on the total grant amount requested (see section 9). — Only one organisation can apply for funding and become a grantee.

Have active users and commercial revenue (users and revenue from any products or services offered by the organisation) in at least one eligible country (see section 5).

BENEFIT:

Successful projects will receive a grant of between £100,000 and £250,000 to scale their innovation over a 15 to 18 month period.